Field Notes Productions
Dale A. Willman
Executive Editor
A national award-winning correspondent and editor for 30 years, Dale Willman is a leading voice in environmental journalism. He is also the visionary behind Field Notes Productions.
Willman spent more than 10 years in various roles at National Public Radio in Washington, D.C. (where he continues to serve as a fill-in newscaster). During the first Gulf War he provided reporting and hourly newscasts from London. His work was cited in NPR’s receipt of the 1991 duPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism. While with NPR, Willman also shared a Peabody Award for his work on the Lost and Found Sound series broadcast on All Things Considered. He produced and edited the most popular program in the series, documenting legendary radio station CKLW. Willman also produced NPR’s coverage from Littleton, Colorado.
As a correspondent he won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting in 1998 for his CNN Radio series, Broadway’s Dirty Little Secret. The series detailed environmental problems surrounding the production of Walt Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. Willman documented the health hazards faced by musicians who underwent a daily onslaught of chemicals from the pyrotechnic explosions that took place during the show. He was the only Environmental Correspondent in the history of CNN Radio.
While with CBS, Willman provided coverage of the White House, Capital Hill, the Pentagon and the State Department for CBS Radio stations. He also served as field producer and correspondent for a number of major events, from U.S.-Soviet Summits to the bombing of the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City.
As Managing Editor for the Great Lakes Radio Consortium for more than two years, Dale turned a small radio news service into a regional powerhouse. The news feed’s coverage was expanded by 10 percent, reaching 135 public radio stations in 20 states and Canada. The service won more than a dozen national and regional awards during that time, including a national Edward R. Murrow Award (2002) for best use of sound.
Willman teaches and lectures on college campuses on numerous topics, from environmental journalism to diversity in the media.
Willman has a master’s degree in Environment and Community from Antioch University and a certificate in Environmental Law and Policy from the graduate school at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He serves on the board of a number of environmental journalism organizations, and is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, the National Association of Science Writers, the Radio-Television News Directors Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
Willman on location in Potosi, Bolivia
Field Notes Productions
P.O. Box 791
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
518.583.7247
info (at) fieldnotes.tv